Life against death [electronic resource] : the psychoanalytical meaning of history / by Norman O. Brown.
Material type: TextPublication details: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press ; Scranton, Pa. : Distributed by Harper & Row, 1985, c1959.Edition: 2nd ed. / with an introduction by Christopher LaschDescription: 1 online resource (xx, 366 p.)ISBN:- 0585370168 (electronic bk.)
- 9780585370163 (electronic bk.)
- 9780819570536 (electronic bk.)
- 0819570532 (electronic bk.)
- 150.19/52 19
- CB19 .B69 1985eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [351]-360) and index.
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Introduction to the second edition / Christopher Lasch -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part 1: Problem -- 1: Disease called man -- 2: Neurosis and history -- Part 2: Eros -- 3: Sexuality and childhood -- 4: Self and the other: narcissus -- 5: Art and Eros -- 6: Language and Eros -- Part 3: Death -- 7: Instinctual dualism and instinctual dialectics -- 8: Death, time, and eternity -- 9: Death and childhood -- Part 4: Sublimation -- 10: Ambiguities of sublimation -- 11: Couch and culture -- 12: Apollo and Dionysus -- Part 5: Studies In Anality -- 13: Excremental vision -- 14: Protestant era -- 15: Filthy lucre -- Rationality and irrationality -- Sacred and secular -- Utility and uselessness -- Owe and ought -- Time is money -- Giving and taking -- City sublime -- Immortality -- Human body -- Excrement -- Part 6: Way Out -- 16: Resurrection of the body -- Reference notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Product Description: A shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
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